What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Building Inspector position at City of Pomona?
Elevate your career while making a lasting impact! The City of Pomona’s Development Services Department is looking for a knowledgeable and detail-oriented Senior Building Inspector to ensure the safety, quality, and compliance of residential, commercial, and industrial construction. In this key role, you’ll conduct inspections, review plans, and oversee permit documentation—directly influencing the city's growth and development. As a trusted resource, you'll provide expert guidance to residents and businesses, helping to build a safer, more sustainable Pomona. If you're ready to lead with expertise and make a difference, apply today!
This position requires standby and call-back availability for work outside regular hours, including overtime, weekends, evenings, and holidays, to meet the City's operational needs.
Why Choose Pomona?
A Career with Financial Growth:
- Continued Growth: Look forward to another 4% raise on 10/1/2025.
- Long-Term Benefits: Benefit from a 5% salary bump on 10/1/2026
Why You'll Love It Here:
- Supportive Environment: Be part of a team that values your contributions and fosters growth.
- Make a Difference: Your work will directly impact the safety and development of Pomona.
- Professional Growth: Opportunities for career advancement and professional development.
To excel in this position, one must possess a set of core competencies. These competencies include, but are not limited to the following:
Decision Making: Choosing optimal courses of action in a timely manner.
Critical Thinking: Analytically and logically evaluates information, propositions, and claims to make informed decisions and solve complex problems.
Professional & Technical Expertise: Applying technical subject matter to the job.
Adaptability: Responds positively to change, quickly adapting work methods or learning and implementing new procedures.
Self-Management: Showing personal organization, self-discipline, and dependability.
Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities would be qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:Education and Experience:
- Equivalent to a high school diploma supplemented specialized training in building codes.
- Five years of building inspection experience performing residential, multi-family, industrial and commercial inspections for a public agency, including at least two years of experience in multi-family and/or commercial inspections.
- Possession of, or must obtain, an appropriate, valid driver's license.
- Possession of a valid International Code Council (ICC) Combination (Residential and Commercial) Building Inspector Certificate. Possession of ICC Plans Examiner Certificate is desirable.
- Lead, plan, and review the work of staff responsible for residential, commercial, and industrial building inspection duties; train staff; and provide input to the performance evaluations of staff.
- Perform and/or oversee the most complex building inspection and plan review work; resolve complex issues requiring a significant knowledge and experience; perform the full range of duties in the assigned area of work.
- Inspect industrial, commercial, and residential buildings during various stages of construction and remodeling to ensure compliance with applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations; conduct final inspection of completed work; approve to acceptable structures and installations.
- Conduct preliminary examination of plans and specifications of new construction, additions and alterations to residential, commercial and industrial buildings; determine compliance with the provisions of the construction code, ordinances, and regulations.
- Inspect existing buildings for change of use or occupancy for compliance with applicable codes and ordinances.
- Investigate citizen complaints of faulty and illegal construction, sub-standard structures, hazardous conditions, and abandoned buildings; prepare correction notices and stop-work orders as necessary.
- Issue and approve various structural and non-structural building and occupancy permits including plumbing, mechanical, electrical, grading, landscape, paving, private sewer, irrigation, and drainage.
- Coordinate inspection and plans examining activities with other City departments and divisions; review site and general plans and building specifications for conformance to all applicable codes, regulations, and ordinances; process site plan submittal with necessary departments.
- Respond to public inquiries over the phone and in person; provide pertinent information to contractors, engineers, developers, architects, homeowner, and the general public; explain and interpret building regulations, requirements, and restrictions.
- Coordinate pre-construction meetings with contractors, developers and other City departments to review information regarding building and safety inspection protocols, requirements and expectations to ensure compliance with applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
- Maintain files and reports regarding inspection activities and findings; maintain records of final plans and consultant approvals; maintain all data entries on the computer relating to plan check activities.
- Prepare monthly reports relating to plan check activities.
- Inspect foundation, concrete, steel, masonry and wood construction, framing, plastering, plumbing, heating, and electrical installations and a large variety of other complex and routine building system elements.
- Issue notices to comply on violations; maintain records of history of facts for possible legal actions.
- Perform related duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, squat, crawl, twist, and climb; exposure to heat, noise, outdoors, vibration, confining work space, and electrical hazards; ability to travel to different sites and locations.
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Examination Procedure
Screening of qualifications and "most qualified" is based on the information provided on the official City Application. A resume may be attached to your application, but will not substitute for the completion of your application. Applications that are not entirely completed may be rejected. This recruitment may also establish a list for future vacancies.
Supplemental Questions
To complete your application for this position you will be prompted to respond to supplemental questions. Incomplete responses, false statements, omission, or partial information may result in disqualification from the selection process. Your responses should be consistent with the information provided on your application. The information will be used as part of the application screening and selection process and is designed to help you present your qualifications for this position. This may include a selection step in which your application and supplemental questions are reviewed and scored by a panel of raters familiar with this position.
Salary : $90,480 - $109,992
